Dr Ashfaq A. Razzaq is a neurosurgeon with a spinal sub-specialization. After graduating from Aga Khan University, he undertook neurosurgery training in the US, UK and Pakistan, for a total period of 14 years. He worked at prominent neurosurgery centers in Cleveland, US, Oxford, UK and King's College Hospital, London. He is the only Pakistani neurosurgeon to have done three years of advanced Spine Fellowship training, in both Neurosurgery & Orthopaedic Surgery, from the US and UK. He has performed more than 1,500 brain and spine operations. He recently completed a prestigious AO Spine fellowship at the University of Alabama (which is among the top 10 US hospitals). During this fellowship he performed 200 cases under the supervision of members of the North American Spine Society. Many of these cases involved spinal rod and screw placement, requiring a high degree of precision. He also gained in-depth experience in spine deformity and trauma during this fellowship.

He has published 15 peer-reviewed articles in international journals and has more than 20 international presentations to his credit. His areas of expertise include neck and back pain, radicular arm pain and sciatica, cervical and lumbar degenerative disc disease, spine deformities such as scoliosis and kyphosis, spine trauma, spinal infections (TB) and tumors. He also practices general and cranial neurosurgery, including head injury, brain tumours, infections, hydrocephalus, carpal tunnel syndrome and ulnar nerve palsy.

Professor Hameedullah Buzdar trained in neurosurgery at the University of Ukraine in 1993. He worked with the famous Professor Madjid Samii at the Neurosurgical Clinic, Nordstadt Hospital in Hannover and undertook a fellowship in Skull Base, Brachial plexus and Cervical Pathology in 1994. He visited the Barrow Neurological Institute in 2001-2002 and received a fellowship in vascular and spinal diseases under the supervision of Professor Robert Spetzler and Volker Sonntag.

He acquired endoscopic skills for the brain and spine from Allegheny Hospital, Drexel University, Pittsburgh in 2012. He is a visiting associate at the International Neuroscience Institute, Hannover and the Barrow Neurological Institute, Phoenix.

He is a professor of neurosurgery at Bolan Medical College. He joined South City Hospital in 2012 where he is a full-time practitioner.

Dr. Atta Bhatti is a neurosurgeon whose main interest is in operative micro-neurosurgery, neuroanatomy, neuroradiology and neuroembryology. He is well versed with the challenges of neurosurgical care in developing countries.

Dr. Bhatti has a two-year fellowship in neuroendovascular interventional surgery from Switzerland. He is the only neurosurgeon who is currently practicing both neurosurgical and endovascular specialties in Pakistan. Dr. Bhatti has also specialized in the field of neurointerventional radiology/endovascular neurosurgery. He is trained in procedures including AVMs, aneurysms, cranial dural AVFs, tumor embolization, spinal AVMs, and spinal dural AVFs, carotid stenting, intra-arterial fibrinolysis and mechanical thrombectomy, super selective WADA, inferior petrosal sinus sampling, temporary and permanent balloon occlusions, embolization of skull base tumors, management of epistaxis and craniofacial lesions.

Dr. Bhatti has worked as an instructor neurosurgeon at Aga Khan University Hospital, Karachi and set up the first private sector neurosurgery unit at the Aga Khan Hospital in Dar es Salam, Africa. He acquired his Neuroanatomy, Neuroradiology and Neurovascular training form Hanover, Germany, Helsinki, Finland and Zurich, Switzerland. He has contributed to 14 publications in peer-reviewed journals, a book “Neurology in Africa” by Prof Howellet and has presented at national and international forums.